Unusual Monster Truck Incidents

Bigfoot (left) and Carolina Crusher (right) crash together during a race.

There have been various monster truck accidents throughout the years of monster truck history. While there have been few injuries, there have also been a handful of unusual accidents as well. NOTE: None of the incidents below were fatal.

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Backwards Bob

In 2015, Backwards Bob was destroyed in an accidental trailer fire. Nobody was injured in the incident, and the truck's teammate, Grave Digger, was salvaged from the wreck. The truck later returned with a spare body on a backup PEI chassis. The incident bared similar resemblance to that of Fire Core crusher, as listed below. The backup chassis used was actually the original Northern Nightmare, which ironically suffered a major engine fire during it's last show.

​Bad News Travels Fast

During an event in Des Moines, IA in 2008 the entire front axle of Bad News Travels Fast seperated from the rest of the truck. As Bruce Haney started his freestyle he got the truck to perform a small power wheelie, the left front tire then clipped a car stack which in turn broke the entire front housing off the truck. The crash was nominated for the 2008 crash madness award from Monster Jam.

Bigfoot

In January 2010, at the Lazy E Arena in Guthrie Oklahoma, Bigfoot, driven by Rodney Tweedy, was reaching its final moments of freestyle when the truck to a sharp, right-hand turn and tilted onto its two left wheels. The truck rolled for the side-wall, directly where spectators were sitting (since this was not a Monster Jam event, none of the seats were closed off, as they are in Monster Jam). Just moments before what would have been a collision with the wall itself, the truck then rolled onto its roof (it is possible Tweedy did this on purpose, to prevent the truck from violently colliding with the wall). And one of the tires collided with a hand-rail just inches from where spectators were sitting. No spectators were injured nor was Tweedy. It was reportedly his first time ever rolling over in a monster truck.

Bigfoot and Nightmare

During a race between Bigfoot and Nightmare, both trucks landed awkwardly, and ended up crashing together.

Carolina Crusher, Crashing

Bigfoot shot to the end of the track, and landed rear tires first. The sudden landing jolted the rear wheels up. The truck suddenly overbalanced, and flipped over. Nightmare on the other hand, landed in such a way that broke the rear axle. The truck suddenly swerved left, out of control. The truck hit the next set of cars very awkwardly, which sent it into a skywheelie. The truck then bounced sideways, and into the side protection, feet from the fans. No one was seriously injured, but Bigfoot sustained heavy damage, and Nightmare more so.

Bear Foot and Carolina Crusher

During a race in Lebanon, Bear Foot clipped Carolina Crusher after it lost control. Bear Foot struck Carolina crusher hard, which caused it to over balance at high speed,and roll violently after the finish line. It is unknown if Gary Porter was hurt in the crash.

Blacksmith

Blacksmith, After Flipping into The Dumpsters.

Boogey Van, Hitting The Wall Hard, Breaking Both Right Front And Right Rear Wheels Off.

During the Monster Jam World Finals 2, Blacksmith was racing against Blue Thunder in the semi-finals. Blacksmith won, but the truck overturns and rolled a few times before rolling over and landing in-between two dumpsters. Driver Pablo Huffaker was uninjured in the crash. Despite attempts to retrieve the truck from where it came to rest, they were unable to, and the truck was left their for the rest of the night. Huffaker would borrow Ragin Steel for freestyle.

Boogey Van

Boogey Van was involved in a infamous accident in Pontiac 1995, where the truck had crashed full on into the stadium wall, resulting in the impact knocking off both the front right, and rear right tires. It destroyed 14 feet of the stadium wall and Pam was in the hospital for four days as a result of the impact.

​Bounty Hunter

During the second Minneapolis event of 2002, Bounty Hunter lost both rear wheels at the same time. On his third hit Creten lined up for the big air jump and came up short,causing the rear houding to clip the landing pad. The left rear snapped of almsot immedatley, it also took the entire wheel assembly and housing with it. The right rear also snapped off moments later and it ended up folding up underneath the right side of the rear housing. The truck came to rest with the rear end perfectly balanced on the right rear tire.

Brutus

Brutus drives out of the pits...

In Pontiac 2002, Brutus had driven out of the pits for freestyle when a tire rolled off two seconds after starting freestyle. The cause to this incident was because bolts hadn't been properly secured back on after a tire change, after the wheel nearly broke off during racing. As a result, the tire merely rolled away.

Burnin' Money & Monster Patrol

During a Monster Truck War show in Chile in 2010, during the intros, Burnin' Money accidentally hit one of Monster Patrol (Dabney)'s tires, causing the driver of Monster Patrol to fall and hit the floor. The driver of Monster Patrol was injured afterwards.

...and the wheel rolls off a mere 2 seconds after starting.

Captain's Curse

Alex Blackwell in Captain's Curse was in the final race at Monster Jam World Finals 10 going up against Tom Meents in Maximum Destruction. As the truck turned the corner in the left lane, the throttle stuck, causing the truck to flip violently up over the wall and into the stands. The section of seats the truck landed in were closed off, so nobody was injured. The crash was censored from the SPEED broadcast of the episode, likely due to controversy regarding two unrelated fatal monster truck incidents earlier that year. However, the crash was uploaded to YouTube and has over 4 million views also the unseen footage of the crash was only showed in europe. Dumpsters were placed on the edges of the stadium for all subsequent World Finals as a result of the incident. Amazingly enough, it is believed that this is the same chassis that ran as Blacksmith 8 years prior that crashed into the wall protection at World Finals 2.

Snake Bite, Crushing Over Carolina Crusher.

Carolina Crusher and Snake Bite

During a race between Carolina Crusher and Snake Bite, Snake Bite lost control and crashed into Carolina Crusher, literally "crushing" the truck by going right over it. Carolina Crusher's fiberglass body was totally destroyed, but most of the chassis was still intact. No injuries happened from the accident.

Clydesdale, Master of Disaster, and Wild Hair

The collision

During a three way monster truck race between Clydesdale, Master of Disaster, and Wild Hair, a collision happened between Wild Hair and Clydesdale. Wild Hair, while attempting to stop after traveling too fast, swerved into the second lane, hitting Clydesdale, whom was tossed into the air, and into the wall. Nobody was seriously injured.

Crushstation

Crushstation ran over an announcer at a monster truck show in 2010. Thankfully, the announcer survived with only a broken pelvis.

Crushstation "Lobster Rolls"

Crushstation was involved in two separate incidents that have been dubbed the "Lobster Roll" incidents. One was in 2015 at Detroit, where the truck was doing a wheelie, and clipped a jammer stack. The truck proceeded to flip end over end twice down the track, before it launched into the air, landing on top of the dumpster at the wall of the track, then sliding over, and stopping on top of the Storm Damage monster truck.

The truck would once again be involved in a similar accident, this time running the blue Crushstation body in Hartford Connecticut, The truck drove off of an omni ramp, and clipped the back of the truck. It rolled over, and flipped end over end, until it landed on top of the Instigator monster truck

Demon, Kimosabe, Showtime, and Weapon 1 Ride Truck

Demon, Kimosabe, Showtime, And Weapon 1 Ride Truck, That Were Burnt Down During A Massive Fire.

A devastating fire ravaged the 22,000 square foot shop of Trick Trucks, Inc. in Spring City, Pennsylvania on July 16, 1998. The monster trucks Rich Blackburne'sDemon, Jack Brady's Kimosabe, Greg Peck's Showtime, and Bill Johnson's Weapon 1 ride truck were completely destroyed, along with shop machinery, parts and supplies. Fortunately no one was in the shop at the time and there were no injuries as a result of this blaze. The fire was caused from a faulty battery from a Power Wheels Bigfoot toy. The Toy Company had announced
soon thereafter that the batteries in the trucks had been found to overcharge and combust, ultimately causing a fire. The toy trucks have since been recalled nationwide due to their apparent flaw, and Mattel is still selling the toys without further incident. Explosions were frequent as the shop contained racing fuel, welding, gas and propane tanks. Unexpected explosions came from the sixteen 66" Monster Truck tires that were stored in the shop after the air inside them became hot and expanded until they violently burst.

Desert Storm

Desert Storm's Crash

Desert Storm was a monster ride truck that was famous for its rollover on a beachside. The truck slipped on the sand on a dune, and overbalanced, and rolled on its side before sliding down the small slope in the sand. No injuries were reported.

El Perro Loco

in 2013 at an event in Mexico, El Perro Loco wheelied and came dangerously close to running into spectators on the track, the event coming less than a couple months prior from the fatal incident with Big Show in the same country.

​El Toro Loco and Avenger

Moments before impact

During qualifying in Atlanta in 2014 Avenger collided with El Toro Loco. Going into the final turn Avenger high sided and as Jim Koehler attempted to save the truck he went inbetween the turning cars and back towards the one racing jump, where Chuck Werner was finishing his qualifying pass in El Toro Loco. Avenger then drove straight into the left side of El Toro and proceded to bounce off (similar to Titan at World Finals XV) and flip. Even though both trucks were damaged (El Toro minorly and Avenger severley), both drivers walked away uninjured, El Toro would return for round one of racing and Avenger was back for freestyle.

El Toro Loco and Bounty Hunter

El Toro Loco flying past Bounty Hunter before the crash.

At Monster Jam World Finals 5, Bounty Hunter (driven by Jimmy Creten became stuck on the large trailer obstacle, where Lupe Soza in El Toro Loco would jump it in freestyle. El Toro Loco, with great speed, jumped the trailer, narrowly avoiding contact with the Bounty Hunter truck, and leaving it in the exact same place after jumping it. El Toro Loco would then crash, causing the back axle and tires to come loose. El Toro Loco would end up in a three-way-tie (the first and so far only time this has happened at the World Finals) along with Madusa, who later knocked down the Bounty Hunter truck from its place.

Firecore Crusher Burnt Down From A Trailer Fire. (Seen On Far Left.)

Fire core Crusher

FireCore Crusher was destroyed in a trailer fire on July 15th 2013. The truck had actually been stolen by Coxx along with Burnin' Money and was renamed from Sin City Crusher. He was confronted a year in 2014 later and forced to return Burnin' Money.

Grave Digger

Grave Digger 3

Grave Digger 3, flying at the stands, filmed by the camera that was hit

In 1992, Grave Digger 3 was involved in a serious accident during a race against Taurus at a show in Providence Rhode Island; the truck was being driven that day by driver Lyle Hancock. The truck bounced over a set of crush cars and was thrown forward, then back onto its back two tires, and then forward again, being flung up the side wall, colliding with a camera and nearly hit spectators in the first few rows of seats.

The truck's upturned wheels can be seen in the first two frames

Amazingly enough, the camera that it collided with was not destroyed, nor was the camera operator injured. Hancock was also uninjured while two spectators received minor injuries from debris. More humorously, according to Dennis Anderson commentating on footage of the crash, another spectator near the crash ended up spilling popcorn all over himself.

Grave Digger 9

In 1998, a 28 year old woman's arm was crushed after the Grave Digger 9 truck flipped over on a beach side in Virginia Beach Virginia. A driver at the event claimed that he saw a wave of water wash up on the shoreline, which is what turned the truck over, although no other witnesses saw this. There were 13 riders in total on the truck at the time of the incident and a total of them seven were injured. The other six were treated and later released, theses six passengers were aged 2-52. A lawsuit was filed, but it was ultimately dismissed, as the driver was not found to be at fault.

Grave Digger 14 (1)

Grave Digger 14, about to hit the dumpster

In 2003 in New Orleans, during freestyle, Dennis Anderson was involved in a very odd incident in which he gassed the truck at a ramp, which launched it into the air. He landed on the front tires, which pushed the truck into an odd pogo, where it keeled over, and slammed against a barrier, roof first. The dumpster pushed the rollcage down onto Dennis' head and shoulder. He would continue to drive untill he broke his arm a few weeks later in a car accident.

Grave Digger 14 (2)

In 2003, at the Monster Jam World Finals 4 practice, Pablo Huffaker drove Grave Digger #14. However, Pablo wasn't the same height as Dennis, and had trouble steering the truck. As a result, the truck crashed through Thunder Alley, and into a tree. Pablo used his regular truck, Grave Digger #16 for the rest of the show. He would use 14 for the encore.

​​Grave Digger 18

During an event at the Philadelphia Spectrum in 2004, Grave Digger #18 got stuck on it's rear tires. During freestyle Rod Schmidt performed a sky wheelie over a van stack and as he contiuned his wheelie the truck shut off and became stuck in a wheelie position against one of the car stacks. The show ended with the track crew pulling the truck down with a loader. Schmidt would finish in second.

Grave Digger 19

In 2004 in New Orleans during freestyle one of the tires caught fire. At the end of his freestyle Dennis Anderson launched into a high speed donut, half-way through the left rear wheel came completely off the truck. It then went off the track where the grease on the inside of the wheel assembly burst into flames from the heat and sparkes generated. The tire came to rest with the fire on the underside, extinguishing the fire.

Grave Digger 20

Grave Digger 20, Flipping Into The Dumpsters.

In 2006, during the last Pontiac Silverdome show in Pontiac, Michigan, Grave Digger 20 was involved in a wild wreck. The truck lost control of it's rear steering on the last jump, and it caused Grave Digger to swerve, and tip over. The truck proceeded to cartwheel, nearly hitting opponent Iron Outlaw, before it launched it's self into a dumpster, and tipping back onto all four wheels, taking the dumpster with it. The truck was fine, as was Dennis, and both made a comeback for Freestyle.

​​​​Grave Digger 23

​During a 2017 More Monster Jam event Tyler Menninga's Grave Digger 23 partially landed on a arena wall. During freestyle at one of the post World Finals events in Manchester, NH, Menninga hit a set of cars full throttle and lept up onto the arena pad. After landing on the pad the truck launched of the backside of the big air ramp and took a bad bounce, which caused the rear of the truck to rebound into the air. Menninga locked the brakes which caused the truck to pivot on the front end and coming smashing down of the dasher boards (hockey boards) at the end of the arena. The impact crushed a few boards, but it only took a few minutes to clean up the mess and continue the show.

Grave Digger 30th Anniversary Encore

Ryan Anderson, Injured.

During the encore at the Monster Jam World Finals 13, Son-Uva Digger driver Ryan Anderson was injured in the final stunt, where four Grave Digger trucks performed a simultaneous backflip off a railcar. Ryan Anderson's truck did not complete the flip, and landed on the rollcage, the impact which, was enough to break Ryan's back. Ambulances were called, and Ryan was escorted from the track. He eventually made a full recovery.

Hooked Before Hitting Grave Digger.

Grave Digger/Hooked

During racing at Indianapolis in 2016, Grave Digger lost control, and jumped into Hooked's lane, whom landed directly on top of Grave Digger. Neither drivers were injured, and the trucks were eventually repaired.

Goldberg

The yellow turning pole making impact with the water pipe

During Monster Jam World Finals 2 racing, Goldberg hit a yellow turning pole, which launched into the air, and struck a waterpipe, causing water to leak all over the right-side racing lane. While racing initially continued with the water leakage as normal, officials eventually agreed to alter the racing circuit. The trucks would instead start inside the stadium corridor, rather than outside like they usually did. This in turn caused some confusion involving Brian Barthel, driving Wolverine, who initially didn't see the flag waver signal the start of the race (the starting lights were outside the stadium therefore could not be used).

Brutus, After Hitting Gunslinger.

Jailbreak, Breaking The Floor.

Gunslinger/Brutus

During a race in New Orleans, 2005, Brutus took off with a wheelie, and lost control of steering as the two trucks went over a main table top. Gunslinger was clipped by Brutus, and flipped over. Neither drivers were injured, But Gunslinger could not return for freestyle, resulting in a very angry Scott Hartsock. The crash was a result of Brutus suffering a broken axle when the race started.

Hot Stuff

In 1990, Hot Stuff was involved in a near fatal accident. Driver Todd Blaiser crashed Hot Stuff, upon impact the roof caved in and when the medics arrived Todd had no pulse, but was eventually resuscitated. He is still alive today.

Hurricane Force

At a Monster Jam show at Minneapolis in 2017, the front axle of Hurricane Force completely separated from the rest of the truck after a hard landing.

Jailbreak

Jailbreak was involved in an unusual accident in 2006 when the truck broke a water pipe inside a Georgia arena. The show the incident took place at had a concrete floor without any dirt at all. During a race, the truck jumped the cars, then came down hard after the car pile and struck the floor with enough force to break a water pipe that was underneath the surface of the track. Nobody was injured as the driver got out of the truck very quickly, but the show was delayed for about an hour to make repairs to the broken floor.

Jester

In St. Louis 2017, Jester was involved in a strange race against Monster Energy, where the truck rolled over two times. The first time, Jester was leading against Monster Energy, but he took the turn too tightly, clipping a car, and pulling the truck over on the front left wheel, saving it perfectly. Positioned towards the finish ramp, the truck gassed at it, and clipped the side of the ramp, immediately flipping the truck sideways, where it broke a wheel off, and destroyed the body. Surprisingly, Jester returned for freestyle.

Rolling over....

King Krunch

King Krunch was involved in an accident where the truck endo'd over, and landed in such a way that most of the chassis was destroyed. Scott was minorly injured in the accident.

King Krunch

King Krunch, darting behind Gunslinger

King Krunch was involved in a strange incident that nearly led to a collision, or an impact in the wall, in 1998. During a race against Gunslinger, on the final jump, King Krunch had a steering failure, and a throttle stick. The truck rocketed just behind Gunslinger, and the engine was killed by an R.I.I switch, causing the truck to spin out before it could make contact with the wall.

King Kong

King Kong, Crashing Onto Some Police Cars.

Lil' Eagle, Involved In The Trailer Crash.

King Kong was racing against Carolina Crusher at a speedway in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. The trucks raced across the crush cars where King Kong, the victor of the race, jumped a concrete barrier, took down a "76" gasoline sign, overturned, and landed upside down between two police cars. Thankfully, nobody was in the police cars and the driver escaped from the truck within 10 seconds and was uninjured. The police cars, however, were completely totaled, and were reportedly brand new police cars as well.

Lil' Eagle/Eagle

After Eagle was sold, and became Lil' Eagle, It was involved in an accident where it's trailer tipped over. Only the truck was injured, as no real humans were injured.

Lucas Oil Crusader

In Arlington Texas 2017, Lucas Oil Crusader almost caused a repeat of the Captain's Curse WF10 crash when the truck experienced a major crash while qualifying alongside Gas Monkey Garage. On the final jump, the truck swerved into the dumpsters and violently wrecked while completely tumbling across one of the dumpsters. The truck would have very likely landed in the stands if it weren't for the dumpsters placed on the sides of the stadium (especially given the low wall height at AT&T stadium). The truck came to rest on all fours near the backflip ramp. Amazingly enough, Linsey Weenk made the top 8 fastest times and made it to the final round where he faced off against Gas Monkey Garage once again. Weenk won the race with no problems but Gas Monkey rolled as they crossed the final jump.

​Lucas Oil Crusader and Max-D #8

During the 2017 fall Houston show Lucas Oil Crusader and Max-D #8 suffered a double wreck. On his second jump of the round two race Tom Meents landed hard which caused the truck to rebound and twist to the right, Meents stayed in the throttle and the truck flipped onto it's side and then back up-right onto all four tires and landed in an open corner of the stadium. As Linsey Weenk came around to the same jump to finish his pass the back end of the truck washed out slightly and as it left the ramp the truck twisted to the left and upon landing the truck proceeded to flip end over end and land upside down on the trunk of a turn car. Meents and Max-D were back for the two- wheel competiton (which he won) and Weenk and Crusader returend for the next round and went on to win the racing bracket.

Madusa and Ice Cream Man

In Atlanta in 2013 Madusa collided with a parked Ice Cream Man. After Ice Cream Man had a short freestyle run in which the left rear wheel broke off, the truck was placed on the edge of the dirt for the remainder of the competition. A few competitors later Madusa came out and performed a wheelie off the biggest obstacle on the floor. Unfortunately she hit the obstacle partially side ways, and as she rode the wheelie the truck went off the course and straight into Ice Cream Man. Ice Cream Man had severe damage to it's right side and Madusa had damage to the front end.

Major Obsession

This truck is famous for its accident in Tacoma, where the throttle stuck during racing and hit a cement barrier placed about 5 feet from wall, which launched it up the stadium wall.

​Master of Disaster and Hotsy

Both Master of Disaster andHotsy rolled during a race in 2017 in Tupelo, MS. As they entered the last turn Master of Disaster cut the turn too close and clipped the turn car and rolled before Paul Strong could recover. As Hotsy came across the finish line the truck clipped the pad in the center and rolled. Both trucks ended up on the same end of the track and right across from each other. This is only the third instance ever where both trucks rolled during a race and the first time ever in an arena.

Max-D: Decade of Maximum Destrution

In 2013 during a show in West Lebanon, Tom Meents and Max-D set a stack of two crush cars on fire. The show was during the trucks 10th Anniversary, so pyrotechnics were placed in parts of the body. At the start of his freestyle Meents set off the pyro, and when the truck hit the cars some of the sparks landed inside the first car car and set the interior on fire. Tom hit the flaming cars several more times. After his freestyle, the track crew attempted to extinguish the fire with fire hoses. After the fire could not be extinguished, the cars were moved and covered in dirt. The cars continued to burn after the conclusion of the show and it is unkown how the fire was exstinguished.

Max-D

In Glendale Arizona, in October of 2016, Jared Eichelberger, driving Maximum Destruction (The red Max-D body on the yellow Max-D truck's chassis), and a wheel broke off. This was because of a high jump, and hard landing. The wheel rolled off, and hit the back flip ramp at the end of the track. The wheel however, instead of bouncing off it, rolled up it, and came to a stop, perfectly placed on top of the middle of the ramp.

2009 Indy Monster Jam Final

The accidental early celebration by Tom Meents, which lead to Seasock's victory

Maximum Destruction Vs. Batman

In 2009, at Indianapolis, Tom Meents in Maximum Destruction squared off against John Seasock in Batman in the finals. A new rule had been added that year, however, stating that the finals race of every show would not have 3 laps as usual, but instead have 5 laps. Tom Meents ended up finishing the first 4 laps before John Seasock, however, he had forgotten the added lap, and began celebrating by doing donuts and jumping obstacles. Seasock took the opportunity, and finished the 5th lap and ended up winning racing. Tom only found out after the race had concluded that he had actually lost the race, and began to drive off the course, embarrassed, only for his engine to catch fire and stall the truck.

Max-D (2017)

During a freestyle in Indianapolis, on February 11, 2017, Max-D was attempting to pull off a backflip in the middle of it's freestyle run. However, the truck hit the ramp at an odd angle, and ended up rotating incorrectly. This sent the truck flying off to the side, where it landed on top of the arena barriers, which separate the fans from dangerous sections of the arena. Nobody was injured.

MotorStorm

In 2008, during a media preview for NSW Monster Truck Championships at the Dapto fairgrounds in New South Wales, temporary driver of MotorStorm, Grant Denyer took a high jump off of a set of crush cars and took a sharp nose dive down, hitting ground very suddenly. He suffered a broken back after the accident.

Napa

NAPA After The Accident.

During a public, exhibit car crush at a NAPA auto parts store, the NAPA truck crushed a set of cars before plowing into a crowd of people, then the truck rolled onto some train tracks. Although there were injuries, this was a non-fatal event. It is also fortunate that no freight train came down the tracks the truck landed on, otherwise, the truck would have been destroyed.

Nitro Fish

During a race in 2000 at Indianapolis, Nitro Fish took a sudden nose dive after the first ramp, the impact caused driver Steve Macklyn to rupture a disc in his back, the truck coasted to the pit end of the track and medics had to help Macklyn out of the truck and took him to the hospital for testing. He returned to driving a week later, this time with the aid of the "hans" device. This accident was featured on the monster trucks episode of the history show "Modern Marvels".

Northern Nightmare (2014)

At the 2014 World Finals, Northern Nightmare attempted a reverse backflip. The truck landed on it's back, and Cam McQueen gassed the truck to save it. By straining the engine, and unknowingly breaking a fuel pump, a huge fire started in Northern Nightmare's cab. Cam was able to escape the truck within seconds, and the truck was extinguished immediately.

Overkill

Predator Ride Truck

Predator lost a tire while giving rides to passengers. Nobody to knowledge was injured

Raging Bull

In August 2015, Raging Bull was doing an exhibition performance when one of the tires fell off of the truck from a hard hit, causing it to roll away and crash into a fence where spectators were standing, injuring nine people. Thankfully, nobody was killed.

Rambo

At a show, Rambo rolled over onto the stands of the arena. Nobody was injured.

Scooby Doo (Aussie)

During an Easter show in 2017 at the Penrith Showground in Australia, Scooby Doo hits a safety barrier, no one was seriously injured, but one person was severly startled.

Snake Bite

Monster Trucks- Snake Bite Crashes Into Shed

Snake Bite Crashes Into Shed 1991

Snake Bite was involved in a famous crash in 1991 in Union Grove Wisconsin, where the truck, being driven by Colt Cobra and racing against Fred Shafer in Bear Foot in Round 1, jumped the "hydra barriers" (plastic units filled with water: water could even be seen splashing out during the collision) and crashed into a concessions stand shed in a nearby parking lot. The shed was completely destroyed, but thankfully no people were inside it at the time of the crash, so nobody was injured. On the other hand, a 2,000lbs industrial freezer, which was inside the shed, was destroyed in the crash, left out in full view partially crushed by the front tires from the truck's resting position, where the truck was left throughout the rest of the show.

Stinger

At a Monster Jam Show at an arena, Stinger went onto the protective barriers.

Immediately as it landed

Stone Crusher

At the last Pontiac show in Pontiac, Michigan, in 2006, Gary Wiggins in Stone Crusher was involved in an incident during freestyle. The truck, on it's last jump, performed a skywheelie. The truck over-rotated, and ended up landing directly on the tailgate. Wiggins broke his back on landing, and had to be taken out of the truck via medical help, and was put on a stretcher. He eventually made a full recovery.

​Son-Uva Digger

During the 2017 event at MetLife Son-Uva Digger crushed a dumpster. While performing a backflip the truck drifted slightly to the side and the rear end of the truck landed on a dumpster. The truck came down with enough force to completly crush one side of a dumpster that was being used for wall protection.

​Team Hot Wheels Firestorm and Monster Energy

During qualifying at World Finals XVIII Team Hot Wheels caused Monster Energy to roll. As they crossed the finish line Team Hot Wheels landed half on the landing pad and half off which caused the truck to swerve to the right where it clipped the right rear tire of the slow moving Monster Energy (who was heading off the track). The collision upset the rear suspension of Monster Energy which caused the truck to high side, LeDuc was unable to save Monster Energy and the truck mildley rolled.

Thrasher Vs. Black Stallion

At a show during racing, Black Stallion broke it's forward gear, and was due to race against Thrasher. In order to race, and entertain the audience, Michael Vaters raced the truck over the cars in reverse, while Thrasher ran the race normally.

Titan (1)

Titan, Crashing Into The Wall

During qualifying at Monster Jam World Finals 15, Titan crashed hard into the wall in the left lane, destroying the chassis. Fortunately, driver Donald Epidendio was not injured in the crash. The chassis was destroyed in the incident, so a new one had to be built. For the World Finals, Donald used a spare Mohawk Warrior chassis as a backup. This crash bares similarity to the infamous crash of Captain's Curse seven years prior (as listed above). The truck had crashed into a dumpster, which likely prevented it from going into the stands like Captain's Curse. The team was able to repair the truck enough for it to continue to run untill the new chassis was completed.

Titan (2)

Tropical Thunder

During a race in Naples, FL against Bigfoot, Tropical Thunder lost control, cartwheeled, lost both front wheels, and crushed the chainlink fence between the track, and audience. Nobody was hurt.

​War Wizard

In Pontiac 2006, War Wizard would have a destructive incident during the qualifying portion of the show. Due to the truck swerving on the final jump, War Wizard would jump up, and land on a motocross hill with half of the truck. The impact ended up knocking Randy Moore out, and the truck continued driving down the track until it slammed into the wall protection at the end of the course. The truck was unable to compete for freestyle, and serious repairs were required for it's next show.

War Wizard, after destroying the suspension.

Only about a week later, during the 2006 Atlanta show War Wizard was totaled. On the first hit in freestyle the truck landed at such an awkward angle that nearly every shock was ripped off and the chassis was severely damaged. Randy Moore ended up buying the Total Chaos chassis in order to run the rest of the year.

Wild Stang

Wild Stang, Crashing

Wild Stang is known for a famous crash which occurred in Cayuga Ontario Canada during Labor Day weekend in 1988. The truck did a car crush, doing a wheelie, then came crashing down and flipped forward, leaving driver Barry Packard (NOTE: some sources say it was Cliff himself driving) trapped underneath the truck. The incident was similar to that of Paula Harbuck's crash in Bear Foot (which is the first recorded monster truck crash), however, while Harbuck was stuck for only a short time, Packard was stuck for an entire 45 minutes before being finally freed. Thankfully, he was not seriously injured in the crash.
In the early days of monster truck competition, crashes were seldom and so trucks were not particularly designed with crashes in mind. Also, with today's monster trucks weighing in at 10,000lbs, old school monster trucks were much heavier than that, with some weighing in as heavy as 13,000lbs, 33% or 1/3 heavier than today's standard. This incident could very well be the main driving force to evolve the design of the monster truck to achieve higher standards of safety.

​Wrecking Crew

Wrecking Crew After Rolling Over.

In Atlanta in 2013 Steve Koehler rolled Wrecking Crew in the same place twice. The truck rolled in the same spot in the same turn in both qualifying and round one of racing. Even though the truck had heavy damage it came back for freestyle, where it broke again.

​Zombie

During freestyle introductions at Monster jam World Finals XVI the hair on Bari Musawwirs Zombie caught fire. Embers from the sparklers set over Thunder Alley got caught in the hair igniting it. Bari moved into the staging area where officials quickly extinguished the flames.